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No. BIO/39!. Patented Sept. 6, I898. J. FERGUSON.

LOOM FDR WEAVING FRINGES.

(Application flied Dec. 20, 1897.)

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ATENT FF ICEQ JAMES FERGUSON, OF DUNDEE, SCOTLAND.

LOOlVl FOR WEAVING FRINGES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 610,391, dated September 6, 1898. A li ti fil d December 20, 1897. Serial No. 662,594. (No model.) Patented in England January 18,1894, No. 1,105.

1'0 M6 whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J a ESFERGUSON, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, and a resident of Dundee, in the county of Forfar, Scotland, have invented certain Improvements in Looms for Weaving Fringes, (for which I have obtained a British patent, No. 1,105, dated January 18, 1894,) of which the following is a specification.

My said invention comprises loom mechanism for weaving fringes.

In carrying out my invention I have carried by the lathe in guides ahorizontal reciprocat-ing bar, hereinafter termed the weftbar, which has fixed on it bent weft-fingers to insert loops of the wefts of which the fringes are to be formed into the successive sheds of the warp. Between the lathe and the breast-beam there is a horizontal rocking spindle which has fixed in ita numberof fingers to take hold of the weft-loops when the weft-fingers move back out of the warp-sheds. The loops accumulate on the lifting-fingers and move along them until cut by blades attached to them. Mechanism hereinafter described is provided to effect a pause inthe movement of the weft-bar required to allow time for the changing of the warp-sheds; and in order that my said invention and the manner of performing the same may be properly understood I hereunto append a sheet of explanatory drawings to be hereinafter referred to and showing .my improvements in looms for weaving fringes. V

Figure 1 of the drawings is a plan, and Fig. 2 a side elevation, of parts of a loom as made according to my invention, Figs. 3 and 4 rep resenting details of the same drawn to a larger scale.

In the drawings the same reference letters are used to mark the same or like parts wherever they are repeated.

I construct a loom for weaving simultaneously a number of separate fringes and provide the same with ordinary or known shedding mechanism with warp-delivery, beatingup lathe and reed, and take-up mechanism. For fringes the warps used consist of a number of small sets for forming the backbone or interwoven parts of the'fringes with spaces between sufficient for the loops or uninterwoven parts of the fringes and for the moveconnection with only one of the weft-fingers D. The weft-threads pass through eyes E, Fig. 3, at the points of the weft-fingers D and may be drawn through spaces in the reed or supplied to the weft-fingersin any other con- I venient way.

Between the lathe A and the breast-beam F there is a horizontal rocking spindle G, extending across the loom and made to rock by means of a lever H on it, connected by a rod J to an eccentric K on the crank-shaft L of the loom.' This rocking spindle G has fixed on it a number of fingers M, (one being shown detached in Fig. 4,) which on the weft-fingers D carrying loops D through the warpsheds from the opposite sides enter the loops formed by the weft-fingers and retain them when the weft-fingers move back out of the sheds. The loops D accumulate on the fingers M and gradually move along them toward the breast-beam F, ultimately reaching cutting-blades N on the sides of the liftingfingers M, which blades sever the loops and free them from the lifting-fingers. The cutting-blades N are hinged at the corner to the lifting-fingers M, and each is made with a leg extending downward and passing through a slot in a transverse bar P, fixed to the framing. When the fingers M are rocked, the disposition of the blades N and the fingers is such as to produce a scissor-like cutting action.

The weft-bar C is moved by cords fixed to its ends, one cord Q passing around a pulley R at one side of the lathe and proceeding thence forward to the front of the loom, where it is fixed to a lever S, centeredon a'short spindle T, carried in the loom-frame V. The other cord V passes around a pulley W at the other side of the lathe A and proceeds thence to the back of the loom, where it is fixed to a helical spring X, fixed to abracket I Y on the loom-frame U. With this arrangement the backward-and-forward movement of the lathe makes the weft-bar O, to which the cords Q and V are attached, reciprocate across. On the lathe A is a'cam-shaped bracket A, which at a special point of the travel of the lathe toward the front of the loom acts on an antifriction-roller Z atthe end of a lever Z", fixed on the spindle T, and causes the lever S to draw the cord Q forward at about the same rate as that at which the lathe is then traveling, so that little or no movement is then communicated to the weftbar C, which remains stationary or nearly so during the time required to allow of changing the warp-sheds.

Instead of the lever S being actuated in the manner hereinbefore described it may be actuated (like the lever H) by an eccentric or crank fixed on the shaft L and connected to it by a rod.

What I claim as my invention is 1. In a loom for weaving fringes, the combination with a lathe and operating means therefor, of a horizontal weft-bar carried by the lathe with means to make the same re ciprocate, of bent weft-fingers 011 the weftbar having eyes at their points for the weftthreads, and a rocking spindle at the inner side of the breast-beam, having fingers to receive the loops of weft passed onto them by the beating-up action of the lathe and having combined with them cutting-blades which cut the loops to form fringe, substantially as set forth.

2. In a loom for weaving fringes, the combination with a lathe and operating means therefor, of a horizontal weft-bar carried by the lathe with means to make the same reciprocate, of bent weft-fingers on the weftbar having eyes at their points to insert the weft-threads into the warp-sheds, and a rocking spindle at the inner side of the breastbeam, having fingers on the opposite side of the warps from the said weft-fingers to receive the loops of weft passed onto them by the beating-up action of the lathe, substantially as described.

3. In a loom, the combination with a latheand operating means therefor, of a horizontal weft-bar carried by the lathe, bent weft-fingers on the bar having eyes for the Weftthreads and means for reciprocating the bar in the lathe and devices to stop said reciprocation, or nearly so, during a portion of the movement of the lathe, as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification .in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAMES FERGUSON.

WVitnesses:

DENIS DEMPSERF, PATRICK BRADY. 

